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Title: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: TeeBugg on Jan 17, 2016, 08:31 AM

hopefully fishing a new pond tomorow. its shallow, less than 7 feet. perch are eating minnows(fatheads), and we dont use or have tip downs. water is dirty, whats your go to for plastics and colors?

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: Swift on Jan 17, 2016, 09:30 AM

Bottom thump/noisy/flashy. Sound/activity can draw them over, color could then be irrelevant but Glow or bright might not hurt

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: slipperybob on Jan 17, 2016, 10:04 AM

Firetiger, gold, orange.

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: Townie on Jan 17, 2016, 12:35 PM

Chartreuse = perch

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: ejdelvo28 on Feb 01, 2016, 11:36 AM

Pound bottom with something UV and rattle.  Make noise and call them in.  If it were me I'd go for a 1/8th UV orage buckshot flutter spoon and a minnow head.  If it's a big place, punch holes and do some search and destroy.  If it's small or crowded, set up and wait for schools to come through.

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: hardwater diehard on Feb 01, 2016, 11:39 AM

Make some noise  rattle baits...chains ...etc ...then glow ...but always scent ..if using spikes ooze scent on at least one or more ...waxies just cant be hooked clean .

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: bowmandan on Feb 01, 2016, 05:37 PM

Been doing good with yellow 1/32oz jig heads with minnows up through the jaw so it lays horizontal

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: don519 on Mar 03, 2016, 04:59 PM

Hot pink and glow

Title: Re: shallow water, less than 7 feet, dirty whats your go to color?
Post by: slippery1 on Mar 03, 2016, 08:54 PM

Perch color to try to match what they eat, at that depth you should not need glow in the dark.